The elements : a very short introduction - Ball, Philip, 1962- (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004)
1. Aristotle's quartet : the elements in antiquity -- 2. Revolution : how oxygen changed the world -- 3. Gold : the glorious and accursed element -- 4. The eightfold path : organizing the elements -- 5. The atom factories : making new elements -- 6. The chemical brothers : why isotopes are useful -- 7. For all practical purposes : technologies of the elements.
"First published as The ingredients, 2002"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 164) and index.
Keywords: Chemical elements